Course Requirements 

1. Review your district and/or school goals and objectives for the library media program. Write a one-page paper explaining the goals and your role in helping to achieve them. Identify materials needed for you to meet the goals.
2.  Complete each item on the Observation Checklist. Have your teacher librarian sign the checklist and turn it in.
3.  How are the books in your school library organized: Dewey Decimal or genre? What are the benefits and difficulties of each system? Be sure to discuss finding materials, shelving, weeding, and efficient, equitable, and effective library services for both students and teachers.
4.  Work with your mentor and identify the library media program policies including selection/replacement/weeding of materials, check-out procedures, fines of lost or damaged materials, scheduling, library staffing, open hours, etc. Once identified, write a 3-2-1 Reflection (3 things I learned, 2 ahas, and 1 question I still have)
5.  Identify current literacy initiatives for your building. Name and describe a minimum of three strategies being used to support the current literacy initiatives, and explain how these strategies will increase student, staff, and family involvement with reading and other literacy activities.
6.  Review the 15 Iowa school library standards from the two sections: Teaching and Learning and Library Management. From each section, determine one standard at which your school library excels and one that needs improvement. Explain why your library excels at the two standards, and why improvement is needed for the other two standards. Provide at least one suggestion for improvement for these two standards.
7.  Review three standards from Iowa Library Standards, Iowa Core ELA, or SEL competencies.You can select one standard from each, two from one and one from another, or all three from one. List at least five resources that are available for each of your three standards. Provide a sentence summary of what the resource is about, and explain how the suggested materials will be helpful to either students and/or teachers.
8.  View the edWebinar, Social-emotional learning in the library presented by Michelle Luhtala (https://home.edweb.net/webinar/emergingtech20190227/). Summarize your learning and explain how you will apply your new learning. Submit the certificate to show completion. 
9.  Complete the training titled, Copyright and You. Submit certificate to show completion.
10.  Read and synthesize the following articles from ALA: Privacy and Confidentiality, Banned Books, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Privacy, and Intellectual Freedom. Create a chart with five rows and two columns, listing the topic in the left column, and your understanding of the topic and how it relates to your school library in the right column.
11.  Describe the process your teacher librarian uses to weed the library. Read the first 31 pages of this manual and compare and contrast the CREW process to what your teacher librarian does using a T-Chart.
12.  Read the assigned articles on Library Behavior (Behavior Management in the Library, Classroom Management for Librarians, and Behaviour Management: Advice to New School Librarians. After a short class discussion highlighting the main points from the articles, participants will create a poster of library rules using CANVA. 
13.  Upload images or photos displaying a welcoming environment in a school library media center. Compare your library to these photographs. How could your school library become more welcoming? Insert a minimum of three images into a Google Doc and explain how your school library could feasibly, with little to no money, become more welcoming. Sell your ideas!
14.  After reading  three articles, identify a minimum of three characteristics of quality children’s and/or young adult literature. Explain why you chose these. (What makes a children’s book good?, Choosing exceptional children’s literature, and Three traits of a good children’s book.) 
15.  Complete the chart for AEA Digital Resources.
16.  Create a genre study for children’s/young adult literature. Find a minimum of 10 resources for a specific genre (contemporary realistic fiction, poetry, science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction, biography/memoir, etc.). Cite the sources in APA style. Briefly summarize each resource in one or two sentences. How will you get students interested in reading this genre? Create an advertisement, commercial, infomercial, poster, etc. that will cause students to want to read this genre.
    
17. Using a Google Doc, create a glossary as a collaborative group to enhance your understanding of the library and technology terminology commonly used. 
18.  Identify and explain the use of three different hardware and technologies that support students'' learning.
19.  Read article about how to troubleshoot simple computer problems. Share one instance of how you were able to troubleshoot a basic hardware or software problem